• Juggling business with child care does not, of course, make for a placid life.

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  • Unruffled by Wall Street's hot breath, SAS appears to be a placid place to work.

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  • Despite the positive outlook, the Egyptian capital of Cairo isn't a placid city two years after the revolution (arguably it never was).

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  • Juggling business with child care does not make for a placid life.

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  • After losing Strauss, England rarely struggled against an inexperienced pace attack on a placid surface but Willett's introduction quickly changed things around.

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  • Seems to me that after a placid spell in the post-banking crisis environment, things are popping not so pleasantly out there in the financial world.

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  • They were perhaps slightly jaded after Saturday's exertions but the accuracy was there, they were simply blunted by a placid pitch and, above all, excellent application.

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  • The scene was blissfully beautiful: a placid expanse of water with patches of lotuses floating here and there, birds swooping and settling, children splashing, adults wading with fishing nets.

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  • But Kruger's 4-35 in two rapid spells earlier on day three was evidence that there was still something in a placid pitch for bowlers who bent their backs.

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  • Far from being claustrophobic, it is a place where happiness has taken root and bloomed: a placid Parisian apartment, lined with bookshelves, and inhabited by Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and his wife, Anne (Emmanuelle Riva).

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  • While its size and strategic position in the Mediterranean may have attracted hosts of conquerors, the nature of its interior and the independent spirit of its inhabitants ensured that Sardinia was never a placid, compliant colony.

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  • The bodies of Henry Luce, the founder of Time magazine, and his wife, the playwright and diplomat Clare Booth Luce, are already buried on the abbey grounds on a placid green hill overlooking the Cooper River.

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  • England drew the first Test with South Africa and lacked the firepower to bowl the tourists out for a second time after building a commanding first innings lead of 346, although they were not helped by a placid pitch.

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  • If a more placid Gore and a more rambunctious and out-there Streiber are correct in their assessment of the scientific data (and perhaps the whispers of their ET friends are right) then hurricane Sandy is the first in a long line of coming superstorms.

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  • Last and harshest is the advent of heaven a kitschy but placid paradise beside a lake, guarded by an American marine.

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  • During volatile markets, selling options provides increased income, relative to a more placid financial environment.

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  • Adele Connors, 60, co-founder of Adworkshop, a Lake Placid, N.

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  • Mandy Vear, who lives in Rossendale in the U.K., said that her father's mind has deteriorated to the point where he will get very agitated at times, though he used to be a very placid man.

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  • The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.

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  • He said his client was a shy, placid and quiet man who had not re-offended in the years since the murder.

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  • "Not everyone can live on a beautiful, placid lake, but we can bring the placid lake to them, " Mr. Johnson says.

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  • But within the limits of what was known, Slipher argued that the nebulae were part of a mass movement of bodies interacting in a far from placid environment.

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  • So placid and compliant a virtue presents itself less as noble self-sacrifice than failure of imagination.

    ECONOMIST: New fiction

  • Not given to swearing or screaming at his employees, Moore's placid facade belies a brilliant engineering mind.

    FORBES: The gentle giant

  • And from December 7-9, Lake Placid will host a "Holiday Village Stroll, " featuring workshops, holiday story time, a "Jingle Bell Run" and more.

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  • From late June through mid-August the family lives in Lake Placid, in a 3, 600-square-foot Adirondack-style home with bright yellowish-brown log walls and vaulted ceilings.

    FORBES: Balancing Act

  • Christian Bale is the placid Bruce Wayne, a swank gent in Armani suits.

    NEWYORKER: The Dark Knight

  • Holcomb is back on the ice in Lake Placid this week testing a new two-man sled produced by German automaker BMW, and so far that sled is fast, too.

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  • And the driving experience is, as we said, beautifully balanced on the tipping point between extreme sportiness that knocks your molars about and placid comfort that costs a tenth of a second through the slalom.

    FORBES: Vehicles Feature

  • By 1998 the fish had made it to the Illinois, a Mississippi tributary, thriving in its placid and muddy backwaters.

    FORBES: Lucky Catch

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